City Xtra engagement report
@City_Xtra - 860K followers on X
Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.6K interactions against 860K followers, an engagement rate of 0.304%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 88% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 61K times each, and 4.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.
Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.
Compared with accounts its own size
City Xtra's engagement rate beats 88% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 89% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.304%, City Xtra sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 20265.1x their median
Ayyoub Bouaddi, Manchester City. ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ซ https://t.co/y6ej2E5WX6
- Aug 23, 20264.7x their median
UAE officials caution that a negative outcome concerning #ManCityโs 115 charges could damage improved relations with the UK, according to two people familiar with the matter. [via @business]
- Aug 21, 20264.1x their median
BREAKING: #ManCity have told Nico Gonzalez he can leave the club, and talks with Newcastle continue. The midfielder is open to a move, but some @ManCity team-mates have tried to talk him into staying. [via @CraigHope_DM]
- Aug 22, 20264.1x their median
Kevin De Bruyne begins his 2026/27 season at Napoli with a goal and an assist. ๐ง๐ช๐ https://t.co/vtuv11MgSn
- Aug 23, 20264.0x their median
๐จ๐ตโช๏ธ Understand Manchester City are now closing in on Allan deal from Palmeiras! Progress made in talks last night with Palmeiras for fee in the region of โฌ40m. ๐ฅโ https://t.co/CS0XoTtPal https://t.co/0nE0g6MoZz
- Aug 21, 20263.0x their median
Erlingโs all of us, right? ๐ฅน๐ฉต https://t.co/PyhYWvxzBd
- Aug 29, 20262.8x their median
11 years ago today, #ManCity signed @KevinDeBruyne! ๐ โ๏ธ 422 Appearances โฝ๏ธ 108 Goals ๐ ฐ๏ธ 177 Assists ๐ Premier League, x6 ๐ League Cup, x5 ๐ Community Shield, x3 ๐ FA Cup, x2 ๐ UEFA Super Cup, x1 ๐ FIFA Club World Cup, x1 ๐ UEFA Champions League, x1 ๐๏ธ IFFHS Men's World Team, x6 ๐๏ธ FIFA FIFPro World 11, x5 ๐๏ธ ESM Team of the Year, x5 ๐๏ธ PFA Premier League Team of the Year, x5 ๐๏ธ Manchester City Player of the Season, x4 ๐๏ธ UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season, x4 ๐๏ธ UEFA Team of the Year, x3 ๐๏ธ Best Belgian Player Abroad, x3 ๐๏ธ IFFHS World's Best Playmaker, x3 ๐๏ธ Premier League Playmaker of the Season, x3 ๐๏ธ PFA Players' Player of the Year, x2 ๐๏ธ Premier League Goal of the Month, x2 ๐๏ธ Premier League Player of the Season, x2 ๐๏ธ UEFA Champions League Team of the Season, x2 ๐๏ธ FSA Player of the Year, x1 ๐๏ธ Manchester City Goal of the Season, x1 ๐๏ธ UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season, x1 ๐๏ธ IFFHS UEFA Team of the Decade ๐๏ธ Sports Illustrated Premier League Team of the Decade
- Aug 29, 20262.6x their median
BREAKING: Liverpoolโs Cody Gakpo has decided to join #ManCity and the parties are now working to reach an agreement with talks advancing. [via @David_Ornstein]
- Aug 28, 20262.2x their median
Phil Foden vs Crystal Palace: 2 Assists 11.9KM Distance Covered (Most) 68 Touches 44 Accurate Passes 92% Pass Accuracy 5 Ground Duels Won 5 Touches In Opposition Box 4 Line-Breaking Passes 3 Recoveries 3 Chances Created (Most) 3 Passes Into Final Third 2 Clearances 2 Was Fouled 2 Accurate Long Balls 2 Successful Dribbles 1 Tackle 1 Accurate Cross 1 Headed Clearance 1 Big Chance Created
- Aug 28, 20262.2x their median
Erling Haaland: "We have to trust the system, and we trust Enzo [Maresca] and what he wants to do..." [via @SkySportsPL]
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 2.6K interactions against 860K followers, an engagement rate of 0.304%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 88% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 61K times each, and 4.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.
- What is City Xtra's engagement rate on X?
- City Xtra (@City_Xtra) has an engagement rate of 0.304%, based on the median interactions across 93 original posts from the last 30 days against 859,997 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.304%, City Xtra sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @City_Xtra have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 88% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @City_Xtra post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.27 posts per day across the measured window.